Terence, This is Stupid Stuff (A. E. Housman Poem)
'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A ...
You young friskies who today Jump and fight in Father's hay With bows and arrows and wooden spears, Playing at ...
Leave me, my blamer, For the sake of the love Which unites your soul with That of your beloved one; ...
Cringing in watching the lies of the sons the madness of the father washing off on them A stage for ...
Never with the oppressors with the despots, the tyrants in the falsehood of temporary security while subjugating their people We ...
His piety, his certainty of righteousness a mask, covering his pain, his pride sensing himself at the center more than ...
Trying to change the discussion, to force him to agree to admit that torture, any torture, was justified that the ...
When He knocks, when you hear his voice on the outside of the door the outside of your life, your ...
We live in a time a world that Paul warned us about violence and righteousness claimed in your name the ...
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powers Has come across the ocean To harm this land of ours; ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Now thou hast loved me one whole day, Tomorrow when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say? Wilt thou then antedate ...
To put this World down, like a Bundle -- And walk steady, away, Requires Energy -- possibly Agony -- 'Tis ...
To interrupt His Yellow Plan The Sun does not allow Caprices of the Atmosphere -- And even when the Snow ...
Those cattle smaller than a Bee That herd upon the eye -- Whose tillage is the passing Crumb -- Those ...
Renunciation -- is a piercing Virtue -- The letting go A Presence -- for an Expectation -- Not now -- ...
Life -- is what we make of it -- Death -- we do not know -- Christ's acquaintance with Him ...
I should have been too glad, I see -- Too lifted -- for the scant degree Of Life's penurious Round ...
I reckon -- when I count it all -- First -- Poets -- Then the Sun -- Then Summer -- ...
Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous -- An Incense Beyond Necessity -- Fame of Myself to ...
Again -- his voice is at the door -- I feel the old Degree -- I hear him ask the ...
It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down -- It was not Night, for ...
What is left now that we've used the last excuse, what is left to justify excess. The rhetoric at best ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar, a rose like Sharon's, lovely as her name. The world forgot ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
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